Bobby, It's Cold Outside
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- "No, it's deeper. It's much deeper than that. [gasps] I think Mr. Burns is depressed."
- ―Lisa Simpson
"Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
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Episode Information
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"Bobby, It's Cold Outside" is the tenth episode of broadcast season 31 of The Simpsons and the six hundred seventy-second episode overall. It originally aired on December 15, 2019. The episode was written by Jeff Westbrook and John Frink and directed by Steven Dean Moore. It guest stars Scott Bakula as himself, Steve Ballmer as himself, and Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob. Donna Reed as Mary Hatch Bailey and James Stewart as George Bailey also appear via uncredited archive footage.
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Synopsis[edit]
- "Someone has been stealing the packages off the porches of people's homes before Christmas. While Sideshow Bob is Bart's prime suspect, he insists he's innocent and helps the Simpsons find the real culprit."
Plot[edit]
Five weeks before Christmas, Lenny orders his Christmas gift online, and two days later United Parcel Service, UPS, carefully delivers it, but someone steals it before he can grab it.
At the lighthouse, Sideshow Bob decorates his tree with decorations of dead Barts. He's visited by Cassandra Patterson, a woman who lives in a nearby lighthouse, bringing him muffins and flirting with him, asking for any dark secrets and if he ever thinks about children.
She tells him she mentions him in town, and Bob knows he lets his guard down around her when two men come visiting, but they offer him a job as a costumed Santa. Meanwhile, more people get robbed of their delivered gifts.
In the garden, Homer blows up his Santa inflatable, but to do it quicker he uses the car's gas and blows it away in flames, burning the tree too, with Ned extinguishing it. Afterwards, Marge informs him they're going to Santa's Village with the kids, and Homer tries to fly away like his balloon, but Marge stops him.
The kids don't really have a great time at the start, especially Maggie having to ride her feared Gnome in Your Home ride, the Gnome-in-the-Home Dome, where Gerald gets kidnapped too.
Bart skips the line to see Santa thanks to Milhouse and finds out the hard way who he really is. Bob tries to strangle him, but he can't because he can't step out of character, so Bart hits him with a fan and tries to show security who he is, but fails, and the family runs away when Homer finds out, as an old Kris Kringle Union member, he has to pose for photos as Santa too.
When a plan to trick the robbers with gunpowder fails for Lenny, he tells Carl who the culprit is, writing with his blood the letters SB. When the news gets on TV, Homer calls the cops to reveal that SB means Selma Bouvier, and she gets arrested, freeing the held Scott Bakula, Steve Ballmer, and Sandra Bullock.
But Bart knows better, so he takes the bus back to the Village and finds the plan, but it's just Bob's life goals. When Bob finds him reading it, to prove to Bart that he's not going to kill him, Bob agrees to help Bart find the culprit by concealing himself in a box and being placed on the porch.
The thief arrives and the family follows the van to a hangar, finding out Smithers and Mr. Burns are the culprits, and Lisa catches on why he does it—because he's depressed.
Mr. Burns tells the story of how he gets heartbroken on Christmas, when he asks Santa for just a hug and a smile from his parents and they never deliver, taking him to boarding school instead, and the next time they meet they die (though his mother is seen alive in the present time).
Bob reaches into his heart, reminding Burns how they make him strong as the biggest present. Burns and Smithers then give presents back to the people in town on a sled.
On Christmas Day, Homer and Marge snuggle together just before the kids open the presents, and they go to the basement to enjoy some time together, just after Grampa takes a picture to bless everyone with "Merry Christmas from the Simpsons!"
Back at the lighthouse, Cassandra brings Bob a Christmas present—a rake—and tells Bob that she knows who he is. She tells Bob that she wants him to kiss her before the two of them start singing "Baby, It's Cold Outside" together. They then sign a "Snuggle Contract" saying that both of them know what they're getting into, just after Horatio McCallister crashes into a rock because the lighthouse light isn't lit.
At the Springfield International Airport, Ballmer meets Mr. Burns. Burns asks him how he can be so positive about everything and if he can teach him how to do it. Ballmer then gives Burns a pep talk. When Burns tries to copy his motions, he hurts himself and has to be taken away in an ambulance, with Steve Ballmer going with him.
Production[edit]
Gallery[edit]
The Simpson family takes another Christmas picture
Promo videos[edit]
The Cops Arrest Selma Bouvier at YouTube- Sideshow Bob & Cassandra Sing A Duet at YouTube
- Full Episode (limited to US) at YouTube
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